Barack Obama Says ‘Fast And Furious’ Began Under Bush: Problem Is, That’s Not Exactly True
The “Fast and Furious” scandal is the speck in the eye of the Obama administration. It exists in the periphery, and comes back to haunt the president from time to time because it’s one of those situations where we never got the full story. Asked about the scandal at the Univision forum on Thursday, President Obama told a big fib when he claimed that the program began under President George W. Bush.
“I think it’s important for us to understand that the Fast and Furious program was a field-initiated program begun under the previous administration,” the president said. “When Eric Holder found out about it, he discontinued it. We assigned a inspector general to do a thorough report that was just issued, confirming that in fact Eric Holder did not know about this, that he took prompt action and the people who did initiate this were held accountable.”
It actually started in October of 2009, nine months into Obama’s presidency, notes ABC News.
You could make an argument that the Bush administration laid the track for the “Fast and Furious” program, as there were previous attempts to “walk” guns over the border in order to trace them, but this particular “field-initiated program” was executed under the Obama administration, and that is an important difference.
White House Spokesman Eric Schultz is already doing damage control, saying, “The President was referring to the flawed tactic of gun-walking, which despite Republicans efforts to politicize this issue, began under the previous Administration and it was our Attorney General who ended it. In fact, this week’s IG report affirms this and if Republicans still have any legitimate questions about Fast and Furious, the 450-page report answers them. In light of this thorough report and Congress’s 16 month-long investigation, Republicans have no excuse to keep wasting time and taxpayer resources on politically-motivated, election-year attacks.”
Except the fact that most of our questions on “Fast and Furious” go unanswered and Attorney General Eric Holder was suspiciously protected from further investigation by executive order. The pursuit of truth? Yeah, what a waste of time.
Note: The final paragraph in this article previously suggested that Eric Holder had been “pardoned” by President Obama’s executive order. In strictest terms, this is patently false. The executive order issued by the president prevented the release of requested documents, effectively “protecting” Holder from further scrutiny. It was not a “pardon” because Holder had not been convicted.
Tags : Barack Obama, eric holder, fast and furious, fast and furious controversy, obama fib, president obama lies
Posted: September 21, 2012
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Sep 22, 2012
WHAT a lying kushite, have you ever seen a more lying kushite? If that ignorant program and plan started with Bush, holder and obama would have screamed that to the top of their lungs from the beginning of their shame! he would lie and swear on his mother/precious fathers life!
obama demands Romney to show tax filings { which I think the 12 years obama received tax refunds would be much more interesting, no telling how many babies daddy he claimed to be } Now I pray That Romney will demand obama's college transcripts that he has ordered none see, and even has legal action taken to hide them, obama knows if anyone see's how him and michelle majored in the down fall of America and even wrote papers on marxism, and socialism, that not one person would vote for him or his wife! So I pray the GOP will now demand his transcripts, and why not just demand his 12 or 13 years of tax files while Romney is shaming obama and his liberal media machine, obama's tax returns and files would be much more interesting!
Never has so much shame been put into a presidential campaign as obama's, his base has awoke to his past lies so he now has turned gay when being elected on a anti-gay marriage platform, he now after letting women suffer as he calls it just before the end of his term in office he now says women deserve better pay, yet waited to just before election for his saving gesture, putting women behind gays, muslims, every criminal in america, and now when his base is leaving him he wants to help get them more money, promised legal immigrants that he would give them America, yet now says the GOP kept him from passing such, yet he fought the GOP and got his healthcare tax passed, so waits until now to say to Hispanic maybe next time vote for me again, when it is black America he is worried for, and just told all that any president has to be for everyone, yet he is not for white America or black and white rich America, he wants all wealth under his control as all beginning dictators desire!! Now recently having so called classified documents released that have fictious boostings of his greatness in every hand written classified secret letter, and he still claims victory of a war he would have nevered began, and claims to be the killer of osama ben liden, and it was Bush who set up the agencies and Bush who went after the… killers of our people, but now obama claims to be a general! And europe now keeps him from conquering our debt, when he asks for more player money everyday…
For evidence our Lord Jesus the God of Bush has had enough of the mandasity put forth by obama and any other trying to cause the fall of His nation our Lord Swore would be, go to the website at Adam and Eve seed gathering Ministry and on the prophecy and the signs page are the prewritten news events of this day written three years ago and more and are the likes of the Japan quake and tidal wave and the DC/Virginia Beach Virginia quake { with more now coming to DC/V.Beach } a quake our Lord brought on the same day as the unveiling of the martin luther king statue in DC! With many other signs prelisted that have come and are coming, also go to the site at Adam and Eve in Action blog wherein are undeniable sounding/waking/gathering links pages and films… much respect to All of Adam and Eve/God's seed Deuteronomy 32:8. http://www.adamandeveseedgatheringministry.com/prophecy_and_the_signs